Stockwell Day (Stockwell Burt Day Jr.) Quotes
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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If you can educate girls, you can change the world.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code.
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The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.
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I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.
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The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
